Real Estate Video News From Around The World #3

(posting a bit early early this week as I’m off to Panama for the FIABCI Congress of the Americas tomorrow)

Andy Denton Experiments with Real Estate Video:
Nice start.  We like when people experiment with real estate video.
http://www.andydenton.com/2007/10/23/realtycom-featured-city-videos/

Bloodhound TV Coming Soon
We like the Bloodhound blog and we especially like his idea for implementation of real estate video. Is that even possible to say as a vendor? 😛
http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/?p=2104

Youtube GeoTagging With Google Earth
But does it geotag everywhere? Funny, we have been geotagging our videos in an automated fashion everywhere in Latin America for a year now even places where Google Maps doesnt.
http://www.realestateblogsites.com/public/item/186411

Reliberation Real Estate Blog Asks if Video Is Better Than Virtual Tours
The age old question comes back to life.
http://www.reliberation.com/blogs/beckytroutt/archive/2007/10/26/video-tours-vs-virtual-tours.aspx

Vidlisting.com To Provide Real Estate Video Training To 3000 South Florida REALTORS
The REALTOR Association of Greater Miami and the Beaches (RAMB) “gets” real estate video….especially video that appeals to international buyers. They asked to train REALTORS in real estate video during their upcoming MLX rollout.
https://forsalebylocals.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/vidlistingcom-to-lead-4-days-of-real-estate-video-workshops/

Real Estate Video News From Around The World #2

Not a lot of big news to choose from this week:

Agentcasts website gets new look
Another real estate video site announces a redesign and also offers a local set of video services nationwide. The first?  Hmmm.
http://www.agentcasts.com/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,227/p,34/

The Future of Real Estate Marketing Gives A Hat Tip To IntoTheBox.tv
Joel actually goes out of the box for a moment and gives rightful kudos to a very well produced real estate video series out of New York City.
http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/weekend-watching-intotheboxtv

Our Own Vidlisting.com States Their Value Proposition For Real Estate Video
Hard data specific to you as a buyer and direct marketing benefits of using video – there’s a change.  Property videos can not only be cheaper than ads on Google but you also get to keep the video!
https://forsalebylocals.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/the-vidlistingcom-real-estate-video-value-proposition/

Real Estate Video – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
My take: every online marketing medium has really bad examples to display by vendors even….gasp…virtual tours.
http://photographyforrealestate.net/2007/10/20/real-estate-video-the-good-bad-and-the-ugly/

Real Estate Video News From Around The World #1

There is a lot more going on in the real estate video than just what we are doing over at http://vidlisting.com. Here is a sampling of recent news throughout the space.

Phoenix Real Estate Guy Starts Weekly Real Estate Video Series:
Nice idea for a series.  Hopefully, we’ll see this series go on for some time.  We have submissions, how do we play?
Link:http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-estate-video-of-the-week-1/519

WellcomeMat To Charge For Premium Features and a 10% Surcharge Over Cost Of Video:
At last, they are  attempting to describe their business model.
Link:http://realestatevideo.wellcomemat.com/2007/10/03/how-wellcomemat-will-survive/

Vidlisting Compares Pricing To Other Competitors:
A response to the idea that all pricing models in real estate video are created equal.
Link:https://forsalebylocals.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/comparing-real-estate-video-services-and-pricing-models-for-property-videos/

RexNet.tv Makes Headway With Members Of The Hampton Roads REALTOR Association:
Looks like RexNet.tv has started their big push and is being quiet about it.
Link: http://www.ethanmarten.com/2007/10/09/becoming-videoactive/

Royal LePage Posts Video Series on Home Buying:
This news comes from 604homes.com and link to the videos is included
Link:http://www.604homes.com/blogs/matthew_collinge/archive/2007/10/09/royal-lepage-tv-offers-videos-on-buying-and-selling.aspx)

Have real estate video news?  Let us know, just send email to tony@vidlisting.com

TheMoveChannel.com Partners With ForSaleByLocals And Vidlisting.com

***NOTE: After almost a year of working closely with the management and staff of The Move Channel (part of On The Move, Ltd.) in the UK on software development, video, and SEO projects, we can no longer recommend them in good conscience to our readers as a trusted real estate partner based on our experience with them. (18 May 2008)***

(This post also available in español)

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Profitability Goals For June Met Solely on Real Estate Video Revenues

http://vidlisting.com , http://bienesraicesvideo.com (spanish), and http://imoveisvideo.com (portuguese) as well as the entire ForSaleByLocals network of websites is pleased to announce that we have met our profitability goals for the month of June 2007. We have been close for some time.

In short, income directly related to real estate video for June will exceed total costs. This includes indirect non-real estate video related costs such as travel, administrative costs such as advertising, and spinning up a new office in Panama – we are only counting the revenues for production and hosting real estate video as well as providing narration for real estate video in alternative languages. 

This was a huge accomplishment for us and the entire team deserves credit. It also marks a key inflection point in establishing and proving a sustainable business model.

Real Estate Video: Dale Stinton, NAR CEO, Participates In SIMA 2007 Roundtable

Dale Stinton, the CEO of the U.S. National Association of REALTORS (NAR) spoke yesterday about a number of interesting topics at the SIMA 2007 International Roundtable Discussion. 

Click To Watch The NAR CEO’s Comments At the SIMA 2007 International Round Table

In this 6 1/2 minute video, he speaks about U.S. home ownership, affordability of housing, impacts of the US technology sector rapidly becoming flush with capital again, and how immigration and foreign buyers are comprising almost 50% of U.S. real estate transactions.

Note that we edited this on a laptop last night so the sound does not meet our normal standards. The beauty of portable vidcasting….

Exclusive Agreement Reached With ACOBIR (Panamanian Association Of Real Estate Agents)

Also available in español.

Exclusive Real Estate Video Agreement Reached

The ForSaleByLocals team is pleased to announce that one of their associated Spanish language real estate video sites, BienesRaicesVideo.com (means “real estate video” in Spanish) has been named as the exclusive real estate video provider for the Panamanian Association of Real Estate Agents and Promoters (ACOBIR). As such, the bienesraicesvideo.com team will be the exclusive provider of online real estate property videos for ACOBIR in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and provide a wide range of additional video and other online multimedia content services for ACOBIR members as a benefit of their membership. This agreement will help to continue to grow the incredibly hot second home and retirement property market in Panama. A formal press release with this announcement is forthcoming.

Videos To Be Part of a Unique NAR-ACOBIR Real Estate Portal

This agreement is not limited to discounts for ACOBIR members on property videos. An important additional benefit of this relationship will be that ACOBIR members will be able to include their videos as part of property listings in an on-line real estate portal authorized under agreement with the U.S. National Association of REALTORS (NAR) and available to NAR’s 1.4 million participating members in the United States. ACOBIR is currently the only international association that has this special relationship with NAR which includes a number of travel benefits, a cross-commission agreement for both ACOBIR and NAR members, and access for NAR members to the PRIMA portal.

About BienesRaicesVideo.com

BienesRaicesVideo.com was established in November 2006 and is part of the ForSaleByLocals (FSBL) network of real estate video websites that provide co-branded and private label online real estate video services and infrastructure in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. BienesRaicesVideo.com is specifically chartered to produce locally focused multimedia content throughout Latin America and Spanish speaking areas of the United States for local and international consumption. They have filmed or produced under license hundreds of real estate property videos since inception and drive dozens of thousands of video views of real estate properties to the FSBL community of websites.

The bienesraicesvideo.com local office in Panama will open in early June 2007 to serve the ACOBIR membership. However, a number of properties represented by ACOBIR members have already been filmed under this agreement. BienesraicesVideo.com can be reached by email at panama@bienesraicesvideo.com, by telephone locally in Panama at 507-6-436-1591, in the US (360-362-1032) or at their main offices in South America (email: sales@bienesraicesvideo.com or phone: 591-3-341-6064).

The US Real Estate Video Roadshow Coming To A City Near You

Training Curriculums – Check! 

We’ve just finished putting together two training curriculums around real estate video.  The first is focused on the business value of real estate video marketing and with an audience focused on brokers and agents; the other is a hands-on course designed to help you improve your own property videos and provide a wealth of video filming techniques to the particpants.

US Road Show – Check!

We are proposing a road show during the month of July 2007 to various cities with the first phase being focused on cities with large bilingual populations on the east coast. The intial cities include Maimi, Tampa, Fairfax, Charlottesville, Raleigh, Houston, and Orlando.  We are soliciting feedback at this point to determine levels of interest. The complete proposal can be found on our activerain blog (http://activerain.com/blogsview/94198/Learn-More-About-Real) . 

Your Feedback – Check!

This trip has been in planning for months and was simply waiting for the curriculum to be finished. If you have any thoughts or would like to participate in any of these or future real estate video training sessions, please let us know at tony@vidlisting.com and we’ll respond with details.  There are also limited sponsorship and real estate video interview opportunities available for each stop and the entire real estate video roadshow.  Contact me for more details.

Update: Great feedback via email – keep it coming – we’ve even picked up our first sponsor.

Professional Real Estate Video Services To Be Available In Panama And Costa Rica In June 2007

We are pleased to announce that we will be opening a local office in Central America that will provide dedicated real estate video services to Panama and Costa Rica in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. 

Local branding decisions have not yet been finalized but the office will likely be branded as part of BienesRaicesVideo.com . We are involved in the startup logistics of finding office space, etc. as well as interviewing bilingual interviewers and videographers in the coming weeks. We plan to have this office operational beginning in June 2007.

We’ll provide the following services out of the Central American office:

– Marketing of Properties: Providing co-branded and private label real estate video marketing services to real estate agents, developers, and other organizations in Panama and Costa Rica. A single reasonable flat rate price for residential properties will include filming, editing, post production, professional narration in English/Spanish/Portuguese, conversion to online formats, and linking to various websites.

– Local Content: Developing local content in multiple languages about living, financing, taxes, and related topics in video, audio, and other formats of interest to real estate buyers and other interested parties

– Real Estate Trade Show Preparation: Developing custom video marketing materials in multiple languages for participants in international real estate trade shows. 

– Private Viewings: Providing a private on-demand “see your property” online video service to buyers interested in viewing specific properties anywhere in Central America before they travel to the region. Potential buyers and current owners can send a video team at a reasonable price to videotape any specific property to which they can provide legal authorization to enter.  This is an ideal service for potential buyers, absentee owners, or those that need video documentation for insurance purposes, to prevent squatters, etc. Note: on demand videos would be password protected and only be viewable by the buyer.

– Geolocation: We’ll be working to have the best available data for geolocation of properties and important features within the Republic of Panama and Costa Rica.

Video Interview With Jeff Hornberger, National Association of REALTORs (NAR)

We recently sat down for a very informative real estate video interview with Jeff Hornberger, whose official title is International Market Development Manager within the International Operations section of the National Asociation of Realtors (NAR). Jeff’s real work seems more like the Latin American envoy for NAR given that he also speaks fluent spanish and some Portuguese. He made for a very interesting interview and it is obvious why he is such a great representative for NAR in the region.

Click To Watch The Video Interview In English With Jeff

During this ten minute english language real estate video interview, Jeff talks about NAR’s interactions with the various national real estate associations, international training opportunities including CIPS training available for those interested in doing international real estate deals, and the growing role of NAR working with local partners throughout the region.

We’ll also be posting Jeff’s real estate video interview in Spanish shortly. Update: Jeff’s interview in Spanish can be found here. (link en español)